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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Style
Rhyme
Connotation
Blank Verse
2. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Characterization
Hyperbole
Meter
Epic
3. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Falling Action
Complication
Anapest
Dramatic Irony
4. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Myth
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Metonymy
Sestet
5. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Epigram
Allegory
Paradox
Apostrophe
6. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
1st Person
Character
Elegy
Alliteration
7. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Meter
Elegy
Literal Language
Figurative Language
8. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.
Symbol
Octave
Assonance
Characterization
9. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Alliteration
Conflict
Onomatopoeia
Trochee
10. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Epiphany
Synecdoche
Octave
Ode
11. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Audience
Climax
Cliche
Antagonist
12. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Villanelle
Elision
Act
Falling Meter
13. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Myth
Figurative Language
Solioquy
Theme
14. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Image
Verbal Irony
Reversal
Aphorism
15. A short saying with a moral.
3rd Person (Limited)
Aphorism
Enjambment
Synecdoche
16. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.
Sestet
Closed Form
Voice
Analogy
17. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Literal Language
Fiction
Diction
Blank Verse
18. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Alliteration
Parody
Epiphany
Dialect
19. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Meter
Onomatopoeia
Epiphany
Audience
20. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Blank Verse
Denouement
Spondee
Synecdoche
21. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Dialogue
Plot
Theme
Villanelle
22. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Persona
Symbolism
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Comic Relief
23. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Elision
Elegy
Meter
Tercet
24. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Rhyme
Synecdoche
Analogy
Motif
25. A character struggles against some outside force.
Comic Relief
Metaphor
Climax
External Conflict
26. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Foil
Conceit
Subplot
Solioquy
27. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Elegy
Assonance
Repetition
Falling Meter
28. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Fiction
Symbolism
Personification
Aside
29. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Character
Epigram
Falling Action
Iamb
30. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Dialogue
Fiction
3rd Person (Limited)
Stanza
31. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Mood
Folklore
Simile
Reversal
32. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Complication
Fiction
Metonymy
Free Verse
33. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Sestet
Syntax
Character
Paradox
34. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Lyric Poem
Catharsis
Image
Allusion
35. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Complication
Enjambment
Sestina
Paradox
36. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Free Verse
3rd Person (Limited)
Mood
Parody
37. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Hyperbole
Conflict
Rhyme
Point of View
38. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Folklore
Cliche
Iamb
Motif
39. The person who 'tells' the story.
Antagonist
Narrator
Subject
Paradox
40. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
Allegory
Structure
1st Person
Narrative Poem
41. What a story or play is about.
Ode
Symbolism
Protagonist
Subject
42. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Trochee
Stereotype
Character
Cliche
43. The time and place of a story or play.
Subplot
Setting
1st Person
Simile
44. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Synecdoche
Ballad
Dialect
Onomatopoeia
45. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
1st Person
Trochee
Characterization
Symbolism
46. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Aphorism
Lyric Poem
Falling Meter
Repetition
47. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Point of View
Caesura
Catharsis
Octave
48. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Conceit
Trochee
Nonfiction
Symbol
49. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Flashback
Fiction
Epiphany
Epigram
50. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Epic
Flashback
Legend
Spondee